Colorado Ballet’s official school is known as the Colorado Ballet Academy, where thousands of students have been exposed to the highest quality of dance training and where many have started their careers as professional dancers. The Academy offers a Summer Intensive Program, where students are considered for the year-long pre-professional program as well as the opportunity to join the Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company. In addition to the various classes offered during the Summer Intensive, Colorado Ballet hosts special guest instructors. Students at this year’s intensive will have the opportunity to take class from special guest Sascha Radetsky, an actor and soloist danseur of the American Ballet Theatre.

Many recognize Sascha Radetsky from starring in the popular 2000 American teen drama film Center Stage, where he played Charlie. He also appeared in the hit Mandy Moore music video “I Wanna Be with You,” from the movie’s soundtrack. Radetsky had leading roles in the PBS television movie Home at Last, and the NBC television series Midnight Caller. Currently, Radetsky has been working on set in New York City for a new ballet drama series, Flesh and Bone, which is expected to debut on Starz in 2015!

Scene from Center Stage

This gifted dancer has studied on scholarship at various renowned summer programs including one of Colorado’s very own, at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, in Vail. He has also danced the works of acclaimed choreographers including George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Christopher Wheeldon.